Reviews tagging 'Death'

Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce

15 reviews

manarnia's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

And so ends another quartet! Kel and her friends are fantastic. Parts of this book dragged for me, but overall, it was a good ending to Kel's story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Trafficking, Sexism, Misogyny, and Slavery

Minor: Torture

victorianrogue's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, and Trafficking

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

quil's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault

meganpbennett's review against another edition

adventurous emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

At the end of Squire, the Chamber of the Ordeal gave Kel a mission: she is to find and kill the mage who uses necromancy to power the killing devices with the souls of children. As a Knight of the Realm, she is forced to follow the orders given to her by her King, and those orders include constructing and governing a refugee camp. When the Scanrans destroy the refugee camp, taking all adult survivors as slaves and bringing the children to the necromancer, she has a choice: does she obey her King or does she track down the Scanrans and recover her people? 

 This was not my favorite of the quartet - I found the ending very abrupt, and it felt a bit like the author was trying to tie off loose ends by force. That being said, not-at-her-best Tamora Pierce is still leagues better than other authors at their best. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Kidnapping, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Grief, and Child death

Minor: Misogyny and Slavery

anacereading's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Death, Child death, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

The pedophilia is implied rather than described.